30th Medical Brigade
The 30th Medical Brigade is a US Army medical brigade, which provides medical support to United States Army Europe and Africa. The brigade headquarters is located in Sembach, Germany, and the brigade is assigned to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command.
Lineage and Honors
Lineage
- Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 30 Medical Regiment.
- Redesignated Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company 30th Medical Regiment October 1939.
- Activated 25 July 1942 at Camp Barkeley, Texas.
- Reorganized and redesignated 8 September 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 30th Medical Group.
- Inactivated 6 June 1949 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Activated 25 March 1953 in Korea.
- Reorganized and redesignated 17 June 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 30th Medical Brigade.
- Reorganized and redesignated 2008 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 30th Medical Command.
- Reorganized and redesignated 2013 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 30th Medical Brigade.
Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- *Rhineland
- *Central Europe
- Korean War
- *Third Korean Winter
- *Korea, Summer 1953
- Southwest Asia
- *Defense of Saudi Arabia
- *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- *Cease-Fire
- Iraq
- *Campaigns to be Determined
- Afghanistan
- *Campaigns to be Determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation, streamer embroidered “KOREA”
- Army Superior Unit Award, streamer embroidered “1995-1996”
- Meritorious Unit Commendation, streamer embroidered “IRAQ”
- Meritorious Unit Commendation, streamer embroidered “AFGHANISTAN”
- Army Superior Unit Award, streamer embroidered “2016-2017”
Insignia
Shoulder sleeve insignia
Description
On a maroon rectangle arced at the top and bottom with a white border, in width and in height overall, a white sword entwined by a gold serpent grasping a gold star in its jaws.Symbolism
Maroon and white are the colors traditionally associated with the Medical Corps. The upright sword symbolizes military preparedness and is entwined by a serpent recalling the Staff of Aesculapius and a heritage of medical service. The star represents the state of Texas, where the 30th Medical Regiment was first activated.Background
The shoulder sleeve insignia was originally approved for the 30th Medical Brigade on 10 December 1993. It was redesignated for the 30th Medical Command on 19 August 2008. The insignia was redesignated for the 30th Medical Brigade effective 16 October 2013. .Distinctive unit insignia
Description
A Silver color metal and enamel device in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Sanguine a sword in pale Argent, point upward entwined by a serpent Vert, holding in its mouth a mullet Or, between two daggers fesswise in cross, points to center of the second, hilts and pommels of the fourth. Attached below the shield a Silver scroll doubled and inscribed "IN CRUCE MEA FIDES" in Black letters.Symbolism
Maroon and white are the colors traditionally associated with the Medical Corps. The sword and daggers characterize the unit as a military organization, while their position in the form of a cross entwined by a serpent, indicates it is a medical unit. The star in the mouth of the serpent is representative of the state of activation, Texas. The motto, "In Cruce Mea Fides", is expressive of the confidence placed in the medical functioning of the original organization.Background
The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 30th Medical Regiment on 10 February 1943. It was amended to correct the description on 26 June 1943. On 3 February 1959, the insignia was rescinded. It was reinstated and redesignated for the 30th Medical Group on 16 June 1966. The insignia was redesignated for the 30th Medical Brigade with description and symbolism revised on 10 December 1993. It was redesignated for the 30th Medical Command on 19 August 2008. The insignia was redesignated for the 30th Medical Brigade effective 16 October 2013.History
World War II
The 30th Medical Regiment was constituted in the Regular Army on 1 October 1933, allotted to the Ninth Corps Area, and assigned to the Fourth Army. It was activated in June 1934 in Texas, and was organized by December 1934 with Organized Reserve personnel as a "Regular Army Inactive" unit with headquarters at Butte, Montana. It was withdrawn from the Ninth Corps Area 5 June 1936 and allotted to the Seventh Corps Area, at the same time being returned to an inactive status. Its designated mobilization training station was Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, 1933-36.The regiment was mobilized on 25 June 1942 at Camp Barkeley, Texas as the 30th Medical Regiment, and was broken up during the middle of the 1943 Louisiana Maneuvers at Rosepine, Louisiana on 8 September 1943 with the regimental headquarters redesignated as the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 30th Medical Group, its subordinate organic battalion headquarters reorganized as separate numbered battalion headquarters, and its organic companies reorganized into separate numbered clearing and collecting companies.
In 1944, the group was transferred to Liverpool, England in November 1944 and onward to Omaha Beach. After arriving on the continent, the group provided area medical support to the staging area at Valognes, France until it was assigned to the Ninth United States Army on 4 December 1944. There, it served alongside the 1st, 31st, and 64th Medical Groups in providing Echelon III support to the soldiers of the Ninth Army. There, the groups supported the Ninth Army in its drive through the Rhine and Ruhr valleys, through the Battle of the Bulge, and the advance to the Elbe river.
After the end of hostilities, the group found itself supervising the hospitalization of repartiated former allied Prisoners of War, displaced civilians, and former allied military personnel. The group's area of operation covered some 350 square miles in the area of Wittenberg, Salzwedel, Hannover, Braunschweig, and Magdeburg. Once they completed this mission, the group headquarters staged at Kappel, Germany to prepare for redeployment to the United States to refit and reequip for the fight against Japan. The group left Germany on 27 June 1945 for Camp Philadelphia, near Reims, France for preparation for overseas movement. The group left Camp Philadelphia on 8 August 1945 for the Calais Staging Area near Marseille and was in the staging are when World War II ended. The group departed France aboard the UAST Borinquen, arriving at the New York Port of Embarkation on 30 August 1945, when it proceeded to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
After returning to the United States, the group was assigned to the general reserve. The group served in a training status at Camp Swift, Texas, Camp Polk, Louisiana, and Fort Moore, Georgia before finally being inactivated at Fort Moore on 6 June 1949.
Korean War
In the spring of 1953, Brigadier General L. Holmes Ginn, an Army Medical Department general officer who served as the Eighth Army Surgeon, requested the addition of a medical group headquarters to provide command and control of the medical units which were then reporting directly to the Eighth Army Surgeon's Office, in accordance with then-current doctrine. This, he felt, would enhance the management and integration of medical support operations at the army level and improve the quality of medical care.The Department of the Army granted authority to reactivate the 30th Medical Group to serve as this command and control headquarters, and the group was reactivated on 25 March 1953 but remained at zero strength until it received its first personnel on 25 May 1963. The original cadre for the group came from the Surgeon's Office of the Eighth Army Headquarters, and the first commander of the reactivated group was Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Lindsay, MC, who had been serving as the medical operations officer on the Surgeon's staff.
The group headquarters became operational on 4 June 1953, assuming operational control over all separate Eighth Army medical units except for two evacuation hospitals, a medical intelligence detachment, and a military history detachment, all of which remained under the direct control of the Eighth Army Surgeon.
Cold War
Operation Desert Storm
Contemporary Operations
Former Commanders
| Image | Rank | Name | Branch | Begin date | End date | Notes |
| Data Missing | ||||||
| Inactive | ||||||
| Data Missing | ||||||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Wendell Walker | MC | In command when group was at Camp Swift; moved group to Fort Moore | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr. | MC | Assumed command of the group at Fort Moore; inactivated the group. Commanded the 44th Medical Brigade in Vietnam; first commander of United States Army Health Services Command; retired as a Major General | |||
| Inactive | ||||||
| Vacant | Unit at zero strength | |||||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Douglas Lindsay | MC | Lindsay had been the medical operations officer in the Eighth Army Surgeon's Office | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr. | MC | Second time commanding the group. | |||
| Data Missing | ||||||
| Colonel | John J. Pelosi | In command in March 1958. | ||||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Tillman D. Johnson | MC | ||||
| Colonel | William Horace Byrne | MC | Retired 30 August 1962. | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Richard B. Austin, III | MC | ||||
| Colonel | Raoul C. Psaki | MC | Assumed command of the U.S. Army Hospital, Neubrucke | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Harold W. Meuller | Assumed command of the U.S. Army Hospital, Bremerhaven | ||||
| Colonel | Roger A. Juel | MC | Assumed command of the 7th Medical Brigade | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Valentine B. Sky | MC | Had been Group Surgeon, 10th Special Forces Group. | |||
| Colonel | Harry J. Misch | MC | Assumed command of the 7th Medical Brigade | |||
| Data Missing | ||||||
| Colonel | William J. Plewes | MS | ||||
| Lieutenant Colonel | Robert F. Heinz, Jr. | MS | ||||
| Colonel | Gilbert Beltran | MS | May have left command later than indicated | |||
| Data Missing | ||||||
| Colonel | Raymond Salmon | MS | ||||
| Colonel | John MacIntyre | MS | ||||
| Data Missing | ||||||
| Colonel | George E. Hammond, Jr. | MS | ||||
| Colonel | Jesse Fulfer | MS | Dates approximate. Deployed the group to Southwest Asia in support of VII Corps | |||
| Reduced to Zero Strength | ||||||
| Brigadier General | Robert Edward Brady | DC | Had been deputy commander of 7th Medical Command until its inactivation. Retired out of command of the 30th Medical Brigade | |||
| Colonel | Thomas Clements | |||||
| Colonel | George W. Weightman | MC | Later commanded 44th Medical Command, AMEDD Center & School, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Retired as a Major General | |||
| Colonel | C. William Fox, Jr. | MC | Later commanded 44th Medical Command and Brooke Army Medical Center. Retired as a Brigadier General | |||
| Colonel | Eric D. Schoomaker | MC | 42nd Surgeon General of the Army | |||
| Colonel | Donald Gagliano | MC | ||||
| Colonel | David A. Rubenstein | MS | Later served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Sustainment, United States Army Medical Command; Commander, European Regional Medical Command; Deputy Surgeon General of the Army, and Commander, Army States Army Medical Department Center and School; Retired as a Major General | |||
| Colonel | Steven W. Swann | MC | Deployed the Brigade to Iraq | |||
| Colonel | Bernard DeKoning | MC | ||||
| Colonel | Dennis D. Doyle | MS | Later served as Commander, William Beaumont Army Medical Center; Commander, Pacific Regional Medical Command; Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, United States Army Medical Command. Retired as a Brigadier General | |||
| Colonel | John M. Cho | MC | Later served as Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Medical Command; Commander, Western Regional Medical Command; Deputy Chief of Staff for Support, United States Army Medical Command. Retired as a Brigadier General | |||
| Colonel | Koji D. Nishimura | MC | Deployed the Brigade to Afghanistan | |||
| Colonel | R. Scott Dingle | MS | 45th Surgeon General of the Army | |||
| Colonel | William M. Stubbs | MS | ||||
| Colonel | Timothy G. Bosetti | MS | ||||
| Colonel | Jason Weiman | MS | ||||
| Colonel | Jordon Henderson | MC |